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World-class competition at the Maryland’s 5 Star Eventing competition debuts this month after one-year delay due to COVID-19.

Nine pairs have been named as the British Olympic eventing entries – the team will be chosen from these horses and riders

By Oliver Townend - As Told to Catherine Austen Oliver Townend and Ballaghmor Class at the 2021 LRK3DE. USEA/Erin Gilmore Photo My first visit to Kentucky was in 2009 when I finished eighth on Carousel Quest - with whom I won Burghley a few months later. My initial impression was, ‘Wow!’ Disbelief that the sport of eventing had such an incredible venue. That disbelief has never weakened. If I could event full-time at the Kentucky...

Horsetalk.co.nz Share Oliver Townend and Ballaghmor Class won the CCI5*-L at Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event in Lexington at the weekend. © LRK3DE British rider Oliver Townend has scored his third consecutive win in the 5* Kentucky Three-Day-Event, jumping a clear round on Ballaghmor Class on Sunday to take the title. It is Townend’s sixth career five-star win, and the second at that level for Ballaghmor Class (Courage II x Kilderry Place), a 14-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding. New Z...

© Amy K. Dragoo Great Britain’s Townend holds a slim lead after cross-country. Tamie Smith and EnVogue maintain their lead in the CCI4*-S. Despite Ballaghmor Class losing a front shoe at the seventh fence of the Kentucky Three-Day Event CCI5*-L cross-country course, as well as riding in a downpour, Great Britain’s Oliver Townend took over the event’s top spot. “It’s a tough course already, and it’s very twisty and turny, especially with no front shoe, so I had to mind him a ...

Little records best score at Kentucky Three-Day Event since 2009 Thursday, 22 April 2021 Marilyn Little recorded the best score at the Kentucky Three-Day Event in 12 years on the opening day in Lexington in the United States. The American rider, on board RF Scandalous, earned 21.7 points to top the scoreboard ahead of British duo Oliver Townend and William Fox-Pitt in the dressage leg of the five-star competition. The impressive points tally was the best since 2009 when Germanys Bettina Hoy, r...

The Kentucky Three-Day Event 2021 cross-country times have been released ahead of the second phase of the competition tomorrow (Saturday, 24 April). New Zealand rider Jonelle Price is the pathfinder for the five-star and will start at 8.30am (1.30pm British time) on Grappa Nera, the first of her three rides. Jonelle will also be on course at 10.18pm (3.18pm British time) on 2018 Badminton Horse Trials winner Classic Moet and 12.18pm (5.18pm British time) on Grovine De Reve). Thursday’s dressa...

Can’t wait to see the Kentucky cross-country course 2021? Here it is! Every fence on the cross-country track for the 2021 running of the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event, which kicks off tomorrow (22 April) with two days of dressage. The cross-country, over a course designed by Derek di Grazia, takes place on Saturday, with Sunday’s showjumping rounding off the event. The cross-country course is 6270m long and the optimum time will be 11 minutes. Our pictures were taken on Wednesday afte...

The five-star dressage kicks off at 12.23pm local time today (5.23pm British time) when Jonelle Price and the first of her three rides, Grappa Nera, enter the arena. The New Zealander will be followed by the first home side rider, Will Coleman on Dondante at 12.31pm (5.31pm British time). The final test today will be much-anticipated as 2018 and 2019 Kentucky winners Oliver Townend and Cooley Master Class will perform at 4.53pm (9.53pm British time). The 2018 Badminton winner Classic Moet, ridd...

Oliver Townend has chosen his two rides for next week’s Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event (22-25 April) and will line up on Cooley Master Class and Ballaghmor Class. The double Kentucky winner also had Tregilder entered, but the two more experienced horses boarded the plane yesterday (14 April) and have now landed in the US. Angela Hislop’s Cooley Master Class will start as number 34. The European team silver medallist is aiming for a third Kentucky title, having won the past two runnings...